Three marble vases and a sarcophagus. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.

  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Date:
[between 1768 and 1778]
Reference:
757006i
  • Pictures
  • Online

Selected images from this work

View 1 image

About this work

Description

The central vase is carved with a priest and worshippers sacrificing the suovetaurilia (a boar, a ram and a bull), and is placed on a sarcophagus guarded by winged sphinxes. The left vase is carved with two birds eating grapes or berries, and the right one with acanthus decoration

Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1768 and 1778]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 53 x 39 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Vaso antico di marmo ornato di bassirilievi rappresentanti il sagrifizio di suovetaurilii ed altri ornamenti allusivi al sagrifizio. Si vede in Inghilterra presso sua Ecc.za Mylord Holland. A, B Vasi antichi di marmo esistenti fra le altre antichità dell'autore. A sua eccellenza Miledi Maria Fox in segno d'ossequio il cavalier G.B. Piranesi. Cavalier Piranesi inc.

References note

John Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 compiled from the Brinsley Ford archive, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 378-379 (Mary Fox, wife of Hon. Stephen Fox, from 1774 2nd Baron Holland); p. 509 (Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 757006i

Type/Technique

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link